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steady progress, eating their way through solid steel. The room was at least sixty feet wide and one hundred and sixty feet long.
" What machine is made here? " I asked.
" What machine? This is where the binder attach¬ ment is made." "And," pointing out fifty or so drilling, boring, and planing machines, "there in those machines aud jigs is the knotter. You may make one thousand or five hundred thousand; there will not be a hair's breadth of difference in them. They are the same knotters to one one-thousandth part of an inch."
Then he took me to room after room and showed me the mechanical equipment for producing different parts of the grain binder with the same deadly accuracy as the knotter was being made. He offered to do the same with mowers, corn binders, huskers and shredders, and so on, but it was not necessary.
"You see," he continued, "when a new machine is designed, we make the parts the old way, because we make a few of them, only a hundred or so. We keep at them until we get them to fit. Then samples are shipped to all the different parts of the country and the machines are tried under all kinds of conditions — rank grain, down grain, rough land, and wet land. Then the redesigning comes and a new lot of samples. This pro¬ cess is kept up for sometimes three years, or four, or even five years. The machine must be perfect and fit every imaginable condition before the hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent to build the equipment for making the jiarts, as you have seen with the binder. Before the jigs, forms, dies, planing and boring machines and bulldozing machines are made, the sample must be as perfect as human ingenuity and experience can make it. Then every machine made is precisely the same as every other. They are more alike than any two peas ever were. We set up a part of our machines and we know the rest will fit. They simply have to, for the parts are exact duplicates. If one machine works, they will all work, even if there are a million of them.
"This gives a smooth, even running that is impossible with hand-made machines. It means the minimum of noise and wear, and guarantees perfect work and long life. It is one of the principal reasons why IHC farming machines are supreme."
The superintendents had much to say on the "men" part of the answer.
"Right in these factories," said one, " we have got the brains of the industry. We have men who have been work¬ ing relentlessly at the same problems, for twenty-five, thirty-five, and even forty-five years. Don't you think they know more about those prob¬ lems and the answers than any¬ body elseon earth? Inthisbusi- A ^reat ness, experience is everything. Illinois,
Building a farming machine is not a simple engi¬ neering proposition, like constructing a bridge, or a locomotive, where all the factors are constant. The farming machine has to meet every known condition of soil, water and vegetation, and the only way to dis¬ cover these conditions is by experience — long experi¬ ence."
One of the superintendents mentioned the part which good working conditions play in the manufacture of good machines.
'' Every effort is made,'' he said, '' to make the work¬ ing conditions as favorable as possible for the men. Freedom from dust, abundance of light, plenty of fresh air, safety devices, sick benefits, old age pensions, and every other known welfare provision is employed to free the men's minds of all worry and fear. The con¬ ditions are cast around thein which are most favorable for accomplishing their life's work without distraction. What we want is the highest achievement of which man is capable.
" So far as keeping ahead of the times is concerned, you would be surprised to see the competition which we have secured through co-operation. The spirit of our experimental work is that we have only begun, and the men vie with each other to discover, invent, and im¬ prove. It is an uninterrupted race forward, free from the handicaps which exist where cut-throat competition is the rule. There quality is sacrificed to cheapness. With us quality is the motto — it is our end and aim of Ufe."
I thought it was clear why IHC factories and IHC methods are supreme in the field of fanning machines. The two greatest farm machine factories in the world bad declared, without a dissenting voice, that it was equipment, men, and undying determination to keep ahead in the march of progress that decided supremacy, and they gave unquestionable evidence of possessing all three qualifications.
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steady progress, eating their way through solid steel. The room was at least sixty feet wide and one hundred and sixty feet long.
" What machine is made here? " I asked.
" What machine? This is where the binder attach¬ ment is made." "And" pointing out fifty or so drilling, boring, and planing machines, "there in those machines aud jigs is the knotter. You may make one thousand or five hundred thousand; there will not be a hair's breadth of difference in them. They are the same knotters to one one-thousandth part of an inch."
Then he took me to room after room and showed me the mechanical equipment for producing different parts of the grain binder with the same deadly accuracy as the knotter was being made. He offered to do the same with mowers, corn binders, huskers and shredders, and so on, but it was not necessary.
"You see" he continued, "when a new machine is designed, we make the parts the old way, because we make a few of them, only a hundred or so. We keep at them until we get them to fit. Then samples are shipped to all the different parts of the country and the machines are tried under all kinds of conditions — rank grain, down grain, rough land, and wet land. Then the redesigning comes and a new lot of samples. This pro¬ cess is kept up for sometimes three years, or four, or even five years. The machine must be perfect and fit every imaginable condition before the hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent to build the equipment for making the jiarts, as you have seen with the binder. Before the jigs, forms, dies, planing and boring machines and bulldozing machines are made, the sample must be as perfect as human ingenuity and experience can make it. Then every machine made is precisely the same as every other. They are more alike than any two peas ever were. We set up a part of our machines and we know the rest will fit. They simply have to, for the parts are exact duplicates. If one machine works, they will all work, even if there are a million of them.
"This gives a smooth, even running that is impossible with hand-made machines. It means the minimum of noise and wear, and guarantees perfect work and long life. It is one of the principal reasons why IHC farming machines are supreme."
The superintendents had much to say on the "men" part of the answer.
"Right in these factories" said one, " we have got the brains of the industry. We have men who have been work¬ ing relentlessly at the same problems, for twenty-five, thirty-five, and even forty-five years. Don't you think they know more about those prob¬ lems and the answers than any¬ body elseon earth? Inthisbusi- A ^reat ness, experience is everything. Illinois,
Building a farming machine is not a simple engi¬ neering proposition, like constructing a bridge, or a locomotive, where all the factors are constant. The farming machine has to meet every known condition of soil, water and vegetation, and the only way to dis¬ cover these conditions is by experience — long experi¬ ence."
One of the superintendents mentioned the part which good working conditions play in the manufacture of good machines.
'' Every effort is made,'' he said, '' to make the work¬ ing conditions as favorable as possible for the men. Freedom from dust, abundance of light, plenty of fresh air, safety devices, sick benefits, old age pensions, and every other known welfare provision is employed to free the men's minds of all worry and fear. The con¬ ditions are cast around thein which are most favorable for accomplishing their life's work without distraction. What we want is the highest achievement of which man is capable.
" So far as keeping ahead of the times is concerned, you would be surprised to see the competition which we have secured through co-operation. The spirit of our experimental work is that we have only begun, and the men vie with each other to discover, invent, and im¬ prove. It is an uninterrupted race forward, free from the handicaps which exist where cut-throat competition is the rule. There quality is sacrificed to cheapness. With us quality is the motto — it is our end and aim of Ufe."
I thought it was clear why IHC factories and IHC methods are supreme in the field of fanning machines. The two greatest farm machine factories in the world bad declared, without a dissenting voice, that it was equipment, men, and undying determination to keep ahead in the march of progress that decided supremacy, and they gave unquestionable evidence of possessing all three qualifications.
assembling scene at the tractor works, Chicago, where Mogul engines and tractors are made